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Derived from the nautical, maritime term forecastle, but pronounced as if it were the words "fore" and "castle" joined together, Forecastle began as a small, community event in 2002 by JK McKnight at Tyler Park. Structured as an equal representation of music, arts, and activism, the event grew quickly and audience expanded regionally. To accommodate increasing crowds, the festival moved to Cherokee Park in 2005, followed by The Mellwood Arts and Entertainment Center in 2006, Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere in 2007, and Louisville Waterfront Park in 2010. The festival's name, format, and concept were trademarked in 2007.[1] Forecastle was named one of Outside Magazine's "Top 15 Festivals in the Country" in 2009.[4]

Forecastle has featured over 100 local, regional, and national artists, contributing a variety of installation work, as well as 2-D, 3-D, and mixed media. Each year's exhibition is commonly centered on a theme of sustainability. A panel of curators designs the exhibition from artist submissions.[8]

In 2011, Forecastle founder JK McKnight created the Forecastle Foundation - a 501(c)(3) environmental non-profit dedicated to "re-building the world's natural awesome".[9] The organization focuses on global hot spots: the most critically threatened, biologically diverse habitats left on earth. Hot spots cover just 2.3% of the Earth's land surface, yet account for 77% of all vertebrate species and 50% of the world's plant life.[10] As of 2015, the Forecastle Foundation has contributed over $150,000 to its partners, including The Guayaki Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, and Kentucky Natural Lands Trust. These projects include the Pine Mountain Wildlife Corridor - a critical tract of old-growth forest and migratory path for hundreds of species in Eastern Kentucky - as well The Green River in Central Kentucky. Other projects include the Mangueirinha Indigenous Reserve in Parana, Brazil, and the Coral Triangle in Indonesia.[9]

In 2012, Forecastle Festival partnered with The Kentucky Distillers Association to launch The Bourbon Lodge: a 120' ft facility styled as a combination of a turn-of-the-century rickhouse and a prohibition-era speakeasy, where patrons can sample bourbon from distilleries in the state. Thee Lodge hosts events such as fireside chats with master distillers, mixology sessions, and culinary pairings.[11] In 2013, bourbon writer Fred Minnick called Forecastle "the most important bourbon venue in the country to reach new consumers".[12]

In honor of Louisville native and Kentucky Bourbon aficionado Hunter S. Thompson, Forecastle visual designers constructed a bourbon bar in the late writer's memory. It debuted on Hunter's posthumous 77th birthday, which was the same weekend as Forecastle 2014.

The "Official Hotel & Headquarters" for the festival is the Galt House, which is Louisville's only riverfront hotel and features 1,300 rooms. Other nearby options include 21c Museum Hotel, Courtyard Marriott, and Ramada Downtown.
American Turners has been used as a campground the past three years. The riverfront property includes a bar, pool, showers, outdoor sports, and other amenities for campers. During the festival, a shuttle bus is usually provided to and from Forecastle Festival.[13]

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Louisville Waterfront Park
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Louisville Waterfront Park is an 85-acre municipal park adjacent to the downtown area of Louisville, Kentucky and the Ohio River. Specifically, it is adjacent to Louisvilles wharf and Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere, phase I of Waterfront Park consists of approximately 55 acres and was dedicated on July 4,1999. Louisville architects Bravura Corporation, together with Hargreaves Associates, were the designers of the park, much of the park, such as the Great Lawn, had opened to the public by the fall of 1998. The initial development cost was about $58 million, a combination of public, the site of the park was previously used for industrial purposes, scrap yards, sand pits and other industrial sites. The park hosted hundreds of events in its first full season of use, including concerts and other festivals. There were problems early-on with the grass being too worn down by visitors. Phase II of the park opened on June 10,2004, and added approximately 17 acres, including the Adventure Playground, included is an esplanade along the rivers edge and a cafe plaza where the Tumbleweed cafe opened in Spring 2005. The park also contains the Brown-Forman amphitheater, docks for transient boaters, the latter is used for the University of Louisville Womens Rowing Team, school and community rowing groups. Several more lawn areas, tree groves, walking paths, as of May 2007 it is not clear when the long-planned conversion will begin, as funding has not yet been found. In 2006, David Karem, executive director of the Waterfront Development Corporation, Karem initiated a plan that was dependent on the average park visitors lack of understanding about waters chemical makeup, and arranged for signs that read, DANGER. – WATER CONTAINS HIGH LEVELS OF HYDROGEN – KEEP OUT, the signs were posted on the fountain at public expense. As it is true that water molecules each contain two atoms of hydrogen, and thus posed no danger, it is considered one of many water-related hoaxes. Kentucky is pledging $12 million to replace the deck on the bridge, the Big Four Bridge is open to pedestrians and cyclists on the Louisville side. The Jeffersonville ramp for The Big Four Bridge, known to locals as the Walking Bridge, was scheduled for August 2013, the plaza was to include a covered playground, fountain, stage, pavilion and plenty of green space. The new plaza was expected to be finished by early 2014, the bridge was completed in May 2014 with the opening of the Jeffersonville ramp. In 2013 the park won the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence a national award that seeks to identify and honor places that address economic. As of Summer 2005, Waterfront Park offers free wireless Internet access, currently, this is the largest public park in the nation to offer such access. The park is packed each year during Thunder over Louisville, a fireworks exhibition which occurs on the Ohio right in front of the park

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Louisville, Kentucky
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Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 30th-most populous city in the United States. It is one of two cities in Kentucky designated as first-class, the other being the states second-largest city of Lexington, Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County. Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark and is named after King Louis XVI of France, making Louisville one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachian Mountains. Sited beside the Falls of the Ohio, the major obstruction to river traffic between the upper Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico, the settlement first grew as a portage site. It was the city of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Its main airport is also the site of United Parcel Services worldwide air hub, since 2003, Louisvilles borders have been the same as those of Jefferson County because of a city-county merger. The official name of this consolidated city-county government is the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, the citys total consolidated population as of the 2014 census estimate was 760,026. However, the total of 612,780 excludes other incorporated places and semiautonomous towns within the county and is the population listed in most sources. As of 2014, the MSA had a population of 1,269,702, the history of Louisville spans hundreds of years, and has been influenced by the areas geography and location. The rapids at the Falls of the Ohio created a barrier to river travel, the first European settlement in the vicinity of modern-day Louisville was on Corn Island in 1778 by Col. George Rogers Clark, credited as the founder of Louisville. Several landmarks in the community are named after him, two years later, in 1780, the Virginia General Assembly approved the town charter of Louisville. The city was named in honor of King Louis XVI of France, early residents lived in forts to protect themselves from Indian raids, but moved out by the late 1780s. In 1803, explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark organized their expedition across America in the town of Clarksville, Indiana at the present-day Falls of the Ohio opposite Louisville, Kentucky. The citys early growth was influenced by the fact river boats had to be unloaded and moved downriver before reaching the falls. By 1828, the population had swelled to 7,000, the city grew rapidly in its formative years. Louisville was a shipping port and slaves worked in a variety of associated trades. The city was often a point of escape for slaves to the north, during the Civil War, Louisville was a major stronghold of Union forces, which kept Kentucky firmly in the Union. It was the center of planning, supplies, recruiting, and transportation for numerous campaigns, by the end of the war, Louisville had not been attacked, although skirmishes and battles, including the battles of Perryville and Corydon, took place nearby

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Kentucky
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Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States. Kentucky is one of four U. S. states constituted as a commonwealth, originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state to join the Union. Kentucky is the 37th most extensive and the 26th most populous of the 50 United States, Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass State, a nickname based on the bluegrass found in many of its pastures due to the fertile soil. One of the regions in Kentucky is the Bluegrass Region in central Kentucky. In 1776, the counties of Virginia beyond the Appalachian Mountains became known as Kentucky County, the precise etymology of the name is uncertain, but likely based on an Iroquoian name meaning the meadow or the prairie. Kentucky is situated in the Upland South, a significant portion of eastern Kentucky is part of Appalachia. Kentucky borders seven states, from the Midwest and the Southeast, West Virginia lies to the east, Virginia to the southeast, Tennessee to the south, Missouri to the west, Illinois and Indiana to the northwest, and Ohio to the north and northeast. Only Missouri and Tennessee, both of which border eight states, touch more, Kentuckys northern border is formed by the Ohio River and its western border by the Mississippi River. The official state borders are based on the courses of the rivers as they existed when Kentucky became a state in 1792, for instance, northbound travelers on U. S.41 from Henderson, after crossing the Ohio River, will be in Kentucky for about two miles. Ellis Park, a racetrack, is located in this small piece of Kentucky. Waterworks Road is part of the land border between Indiana and Kentucky. Kentucky has a part known as Kentucky Bend, at the far west corner of the state. It exists as an exclave surrounded completely by Missouri and Tennessee, Road access to this small part of Kentucky on the Mississippi River requires a trip through Tennessee. The epicenter of the powerful 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes was near this area, much of the outer Bluegrass is in the Eden Shale Hills area, made up of short, steep, and very narrow hills. The Jackson Purchase and western Pennyrile are home to several bald cypress/tupelo swamps, located within the southeastern interior portion of North America, Kentucky has a climate that can best be described as a humid subtropical climate. Temperatures in Kentucky usually range from daytime summer highs of 87 °F to the low of 23 °F. The average precipitation is 46 inches a year, Kentucky experiences four distinct seasons, with substantial variations in the severity of summer and winter. The highest recorded temperature was 114 °F at Greensburg on July 28,1930 while the lowest recorded temperature was −37 °F at Shelbyville on January 19,1994, due to its location, Kentucky has a moderate humid subtropical climate, with abundant rainfall

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The Black Keys
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The Black Keys are an American rock band formed in Akron, Ohio, in 2001. The group consists of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, the bands raw blues rock sound draws heavily from Auerbachs blues influences, including Junior Kimbrough, Howlin Wolf, and Robert Johnson. Friends since childhood, Auerbach and Carney founded the group after dropping out of college, after signing with indie label Alive, they released their debut album, The Big Come Up, which earned them a new deal with Fat Possum Records. Their third album, Rubber Factory, received acclaim and boosted the bands profile. The groups commercial breakthrough came in 2010 with Brothers, which along with its popular single Tighten Up, won three Grammy Awards. Their 2011 follow-up El Camino received strong reviews and peaked at two on the Billboard 200 chart, leading to the first arena concert tour of the bands career. The album and its hit single Lonely Boy won three Grammy Awards, in 2014, they released their eighth album, Turn Blue, their first number-one record in the US, Canada, and Australia. Guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney first met when they were eight or nine years old living in the same neighborhood of Akron. Auerbach and Carney both come from musical backgrounds, Auerbach is the cousin of guitarist Robert Quine, a veteran of New Yorks avant-rock scene. Carney is the nephew of saxophonist Ralph Carney, who performed on several Tom Waits albums, while attending Firestone High School, they became friends, though they were part of different crowds—Auerbach was captain of the high school soccer team, while Carney was a social outcast. Encouraged by their brothers, the duo began jamming together in 1996, as Auerbach was learning guitar at the time and Carney owned a four-track recorder, after graduating, both briefly attended the University of Akron before dropping out. Auerbach attempted to make a living performing at small bars in town. To record one, he asked for help from Carney, who agreed to recording equipment. However, none of Auerbachs backing band showed up on the recording date, instead, Carney and Auerbach jammed, eventually leading to the duo forming a band in mid-2001. Together, they recorded a demo consisting of old blues rip-offs. On March 20,2002, the duo played their first live show at Clevelands Beachland Ballroom and Tavern to an audience of approximately eight people. The bands debut album, The Big Come Up, was recorded entirely in Carneys basement on an 8-track tape recorder in lo-fi and was released in May 2002, three months after they signed to Alive. Two tracks, covers of the blues standard Leavin Trunk and The Beatles song She Said

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Jack White
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Jack White is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is known as the singer and guitarist of duo The White Stripes. On April 24,2012, White released his solo album. His second studio album, Lazaretto, was released on June 10,2014, both received wide commercial and critical acclaim. After moonlighting in several underground Detroit bands as a drummer, White founded The White Stripes with fellow Detroit native Meg White in 1997. Their 2001 breakthrough album, White Blood Cells, brought international fame with the hit single and accompanying music video. This recognition provided White opportunities to collaborate with artists, including Loretta Lynn. In 2006, White founded The Raconteurs with Brendan Benson, White has enjoyed consistent critical and popular success, and is widely credited as one of the key artists in the garage rock revival of the 2000s. He has won twelve Grammy Awards, and both of his albums have reached number one on the Billboard charts. Rolling Stone ranked him number 70 on its 2010 list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, david Frickes 2011 list ranked him at number 17. White has a collection of guitars and other instruments, and has a preference for vintage items that often have connections to famous blues artists. He is an advocate for analog technology and recording techniques. His record label and studio Third Man Records releases vinyl recordings of his own work, as well as that of other artists and his latest album holds the record for most first-week vinyl sales since 1991. White values his privacy and has known to create misdirection about his personal life. He and Meg divorced in 2000 and he was married to model and singer Karen Elson from 2005 to 2013, together, they have a son and daughter. He currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee and he recently bought a house in Kalamazoo, Michigan. John Anthony Gillis was born in Detroit, Michigan, the youngest of ten children—and the seventh son—of Teresa and his mothers family was Polish, while his father was of Scottish-Canadian descent. He was raised a Catholic, and his father and mother worked for the Archdiocese of Detroit

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Beck
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Beck Hansen, known mononymously as Beck, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is mostly known for his composition, as well as a palette of sonic genres. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his experimental and lo-fi style. Today, he musically encompasses folk, funk, soul, hip hop, alternative rock, country and he has released 12 studio albums, as well as several non-album singles and a book of sheet music. Born in Los Angeles in 1970, Beck grew towards hip-hop and folk in his teens and began to perform locally at coffeehouses and he moved to New York City in 1989 and became involved in the citys small fiery anti-folk movement. Returning to Los Angeles in the early 1990s, he cut his breakthrough single Loser, which became a hit in 1994, and released his first major album, Mellow Gold. Odelay, released in 1996, produced hit singles, topped critic polls and he released the psychedelic Mutations in 1998, and the funk-infused Midnite Vultures in 1999. The soft-acoustic Sea Change in 2002 showcased a more serious Beck and he is reportedly working on a thirteenth studio album, with the singles Dreams and Wow having already been released. Two of Becks most popular and acclaimed recordings are Odelay and Sea Change, the four-time platinum artist has collaborated with several artists and has made several contributions to soundtracks. Beck is married to actress Marissa Ribisi, and is an active Scientologist, Beck was born in Los Angeles, to David Campbell, a Canadian-born musician, and Bibbe Hansen, a visual artist and former Warhol superstar. Bibbes mother was half Jewish, while Bibbes father, Al Hansen, was partly of Norwegian descent, Beck has said that he was raised celebrating Jewish holidays, and that he considers himself Jewish. Becks mother grew up amid New Yorks Andy Warhol Factory art scene of the 1960s, but moved to California at age 17 and his father is a Canadian-born arranger, composer and conductor who worked on hundreds of albums and numerous films. Beck began life in a house near downtown Los Angeles. As a child, he lived in a neighborhood just off Hollywood Boulevard. By the time we left there, they were ripping out miles of houses en masse and building low-rent, giant apartment blocks, the lower-class family struggled financially, moving to Hoover and Ninth Street, a neighborhood populated primarily by Koreans and Salvadorian refugees. He was sent for a time to live with his grandparents in Kansas. Since his paternal grandfather was a Presbyterian minister, Beck grew up influenced by church music, Beck also spent time in Europe with his maternal grandfather, Al Hansen, a visual collage artist and a pioneer in the avant-garde Fluxus movement. Beck obtained his first guitar at 16 and became a street musician, during his teens, Beck discovered the music of Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore and X, but remained uninterested in most music outside folk until many years into his career

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Outkast
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Outkast is an American hip hop duo formed in 1991, in East Point, Atlanta, Georgia, composed of Atlanta-based rappers André André3000 Benjamin and Antwan Big Boi Patton. Benjamin and Patton formed the group as high school students in 1991, OutKast released their debut album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik in 1994, which gained popularity after the single Players Ball reached number one on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart. With successive releases including ATLiens and Aquemini, the duo developed their sound, experimenting with a variety of styles. In 2000, Outkast released the critically acclaimed Stankonia, which included the singles Ms. Jackson, in 2003, the duo released the double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, which featured the number one singles Hey Ya. and The Way You Move. The album would win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America. Outkast next released the soundtrack for the 2006 musical film Idlewild, in 2007, the duo went on hiatus and both members have since pursued solo careers. In 2014, Outkast reunited to celebrate their 20th anniversary by performing at more than 40 festivals worldwide in 2014, the duo is one of the most successful hip-hop groups of all time, having received six Grammy Awards. Between six studio albums and a greatest hits release, Outkast has sold over 25 million records, meanwhile, they have garnered widespread critical acclaim, with publications such as Rolling Stone and Pitchfork Media listing albums such as Aquemini and Stankonia among the best of their era. Benjamin and Patton met in 1991 at the Lenox Square shopping mall when they were sixteen years old. The two lived in the East Point section of Atlanta and attended Tri-Cities High School, an arts based academy, during school, Benjamin and Patton participated in rap battles in the cafeteria. Benjamins parents were divorced and he was living with his father, meanwhile, Patton had to move with his four brothers and six sisters from Savannah to Atlanta. Benjamin and Patton eventually teamed up and were pursued by Organized Noize, OutKast, Organized Noize, and schoolmates Goodie Mob formed the nucleus of the Dungeon Family organization. During the holiday season of 1993, they released their first single, the songs funky style, much of it accomplished with live instrumentation, was a hit with audiences. Players Ball hit number-one on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart, Players Ball also topped the R&B charts for six weeks. Their debut album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, was issued on April 26,1994 and this initial effort is credited with laying the foundation for southern hip hop and is considered a classic by many. Every track on Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik was produced by Organized Noize and featured members of the Dungeon Family. Follow-up singles included the track and Git Up Git Out. OutKast won Best New Rap Group at the Source Awards in 1995, in the same year, the group contributed Benz or a Beamer to the popular New Jersey Drive soundtrack

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LCD Soundsystem
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LCD Soundsystem is an American rock band from Brooklyn, New York. Formed in 2002, it is fronted by musician James Murphy, co-founder of DFA Records, the band began by recording and releasing multiple singles from 2002 to 2004 leading up to their eponymous debut studio album, which was released in 2005. It garnered critical acclaim as well as a Grammy nomination for Best Electronic/Dance Album and their single Daft Punk Is Playing at My House, which has become the bands most successful single, also received a Grammy nomination for Best Dance Recording. In 2007, the released their second studio album, Sound of Silver, to critical acclaim. Three years later, LCD Soundsystem released their studio album, This Is Happening. In February 2011, a statement was posted on the website that announced its disbandment. It was to be made following a large farewell concert at Madison Square Garden on April 2,2011. The farewell concert is chronicled in the documentary film Shut Up and Play the Hits and was made available as a live album, titled The Long Goodbye. After a series of rumors hinting at a band reunion, LCD Soundsystem released the single Christmas Will Break Your Heart in December 2015. LCD Soundsystem began by releasing a string of singles under DFA Records and they gained attention with their first single, Losing My Edge, which peaked at number 115 in the UK. Described as an eight-minute, laugh-out-loud funny dissection of cool over a dirty electronic beat and this was followed by the single Give It Up, and in the following year, Yeah and Movement. The latter two peaked at number 77 and number 52 in the UK, respectively, LCD Soundsystem released their eponymous debut studio album in January 2005 to critical acclaim. For the CD version, the first disc contains the album, the band toured with M. I. A. following the release of the album. In June 2005, the band covered a Siouxsie and the Banshees song and their self-titled debut was also placed at number 94 of Amazon. coms Top 100 Editors Picks of 2005. In October 2006, LCD Soundsystem released a composition entitled 45,33 and it was made available for download from iTunes. Despite its name, the track is actually 45 minutes and 58 seconds long—the title is a reference to vinyl speeds —and was claimed to reward and push at good intervals of a run. However, it was revealed that this was not the case. LCD Soundsystems second studio album, Sound of Silver, was released on March 20,2007, praise included Mixmag awarding it the title Album of the Month, a 9.2 score from Pitchfork and a 5-star review from The Guardian

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The Flaming Lips
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The Flaming Lips are an American rock band formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1983. In 2002, Q magazine named the Flaming Lips one of the 50 Bands to See Before You Die, the band is best known for its associations with 1960s and 1970s psychedelic subculture, with elements of this culture permeating the groups instrumentation, effects, and composition. Coynes lyrics, in particular, both reference and embody the fascination with the fiction and space opera genres of fiction that were popular during the golden age of psychedelic subculture. The group recorded albums and EPs on an indie label, Restless, in the 1980s. After signing to Warner Brothers, they scored a hit in 1993 with She Dont Use Jelly and they have had more hit singles in Europe than in the U. S. In February 2007, they were nominated for a 2007 BRIT Award in the Best International Act category, by 2007, the group garnered three Grammy Awards, including two for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. The Flaming Lips formed in Norman, Oklahoma in 1983 with Wayne Coyne on guitar, his brother Mark singing lead vocals, the band debuted at Oklahoma Citys Blue Note Lounge. After they went through a host of different drummers, Richard English joined the band in 1984 and that same year they recorded their only release with Mark Coyne singing lead vocals–The Flaming Lips. After his brothers departure, Wayne assumed the duties and the band released their first full-length album, Hear It Is. This line-up recorded two albums, 1987s Oh My Gawd. and 1989s Telepathic Surgery, the latter originally planned to be a 30-minute sound collage. Nathan Roberts replaced English and Jonathan Donahue joined in 1989, in a Priest Driven Ambulance, their first album with producer Dave Fridmann, was recorded at the State University of New York in Fredonia for $5 an hour on a $10,000 budget. The album was host to an expansion in the bands sound and their previous experiments in tape loops. During this period, Coyne made his transition to a higher, more strained vocal style akin to Neil Young, in 1991, the band started recording their major label debut Hit to Death in the Future Head. After the recording of this album Donahue left the band to concentrate on Mercury Rev and Roberts left the band as well and they were replaced by Ronald Jones and Steven Drozd respectively. In 1993, they released Transmissions from the Satellite Heart and this was the only studio album since In a Priest Driven Ambulance to date in which Dave Fridmann has not been involved. The success of this led to long stints of touring, opening for bands including the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Clouds Taste Metallic was released to much fanfare in late 1995. The strain of the year-long Clouds tour, added to the stress from the three years touring in support of Transmissions, was a factor in the departure of Ronald Jones in late 1996

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The Avett Brothers
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The Avett Brothers /ˈeɪvᵻt/ are an American folk rock band from Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, USA. The band is made up of two brothers, Scott Avett and Seth Avett as well as Bob Crawford and Joe Kwon, mike Marsh, Tania Elizabeth and Paul Defiglia are touring members of the band. Seths band Margo had released a song Dumbfight on an album before merging with Nemo. After releasing three albums under the Nemo moniker the Avetts started experimenting with acoustic music with friends at night. As Nemo broke up Scott and Seth continued to write music together. In early 2001 stand-up bassist Bob Crawford, formerly of The Memphis Quick 50, joined the Avetts, the Avett Brothers set out on a self-booked tour to promote the new album and in late 2002 began preparations for a follow-up. After releasing a record of originals and covers titled Live at the Double Door Inn the brothers settled down to compile a new full-length album. During this time the band began a partnership with Dolph Ramseur, after 70 hours in the studio, 2003s A Carolina Jubilee became the bands first release on Ramseur Records. Unlike their previous albums, A Carolina Jubilee demonstrated the bands genre-crossing writing and performing abilities, in 2004, The Avett Brothers released their third album titled Mignonette. The new CD featured polished harmonies, introspective lyrics and a sense of dedication that pushed the band to new heights, the album, running longer than 70 minutes, included vocals by their sister Bonnie Avett and father Jim Avett. Mignonette is considered to be a concept revolving around nautical themes and honesty. In 2005 the band released Live, Volume 2 which was recorded at both the Neighborhood Theatre and Kings Baracade in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina, the album spanned material from their career up to that point. In early 2006 the band released Four Thieves Gone, The Robbinsville Sessions to much acclaim, the album was recorded in a lake house in Robbinsville, North Carolina over the course of 10 days and included collaborations with Paleface and Ian Thomas. During extensive touring in support of the album Scott and Seth Avett produced The Gleam and they were inspired to create the album as a duo after their experience writing and recording Famous Flower of Manhattan during the Four Thieves Gone sessions. The band released Emotionalism on May 15,2007 and it debuted at the top of the Billboard Top Heatseekers Albums chart, No.134 on the Billboard 200 and No.13 on the Independent Artist Chart. In support of the album the band made their television debut on May 12 on Late Night with Conan OBrien where they performed Paranoia in B-Flat Major. Emotionalism marked the first appearance of cellist Joe Kwon, who has become a full-time touring and recording member of the band. On November 1,2007, The Avett Brothers won the Americana Music Association Duo/Group of the Year, in July 2008, the band released The Second Gleam, another stripped-down acoustic album like 2006s The Gleam

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Widespread Panic
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Widespread Panic is an American rock band from Athens, Georgia. The current lineup includes guitarist/singer John Bell, bassist Dave Schools, drummer Duane Trucks, percussionist Domingo Sunny Ortiz, keyboardist John JoJo Hermann, Michael Houser and George McConnell have also played lead guitar for the band, Todd Nance retired in 2016 as their original drummer. Since their inception in Athens, Georgia, in 1986, Widespread Panic has risen to elite status among American jam bands. Following in the steps of other Southern rock jam bands such as The Allman Brothers Band, they draw influences from the Southern rock, blues-rock, progressive rock, funk and they are frequently compared to other jam band road warriors such as the Grateful Dead and Phish. Widely renowned for their performances, as of 2015, they hold the record for number of sold-out performances at Red Rocks Amphitheatre at 51. John Bell and Michael Houser met in 1981 in their dorm at the University of Georgia, Bell had been playing guitar as a solo act, and invited his new friend Houser, also a guitarist, to join him. They began living together and collaborating on music in year, writing still-popular songs such as Driving Song. Bassist Dave Schools met Bell and Houser in 1984 and first played them on February 24,1985. On February 6,1986, Houser called childhood friend and drummer Todd Nance to sit in with Houser, Bell, the band was named for Housers once-frequent panic attacks. Texan percussionist Domingo S. Ortiz began sitting in with the band later that year. The band played in fraternities and bars regularly before Panic signed a contract with Landslide Records in 1987, in September of the same year, they recorded their first album, Space Wrangler, at John Keanes studio in Athens. Col. Bruce Hampton is rumored to have delivered the first pressing to the band, songs on the album included Chilly Water, Travelin Light, Space Wrangler, Coconut, The Take Out, Porch Song, Stop-Go and Driving Song. After Space Wrangler, touring expanded to include additional dates, along with Texas, Colorado, the west coast. It was also around this time that Domingo Ortiz joined the band full-time and they played their first show in Colorado in March 1990, opening for Jerry Josephs band Little Women. Widespread Panic signed with Capricorn Records in January 1991, later that year, they released their major label debut, Widespread Panic. That same year Billy Bob Thornton directed the movie Widespread Panic, as the band began to tour more, John Hermann joined the band as a keyboardist in March 1992 replacing Dixie Dregs keyboardist T. Lavitz who joined the band a year earlier. The band continued to tour throughout the entire US in 1992 joining the famous HORDE tour with Blues Traveler, Phish, and they released Everyday in March 1993 and Aint Life Grand in September 1994. Panic marked their rise by playing on television for the first time in November 1994

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Cherokee Park
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Cherokee Park is a 409-acre municipal park located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States and is part of the Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy. It was designed in 1891 by Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of landscape architecture along with 18 of Louisvilles 123 parks, Beargrass Creek runs through much of the park, and is crossed by numerous pedestrian and automobile bridges. According to The Trust for Public Land, Cherokee Park has 500,000 visitors annually, the park features a 2.4 mile Scenic Loop through the parks pastoral setting featuring rolling hills, open meadows and woodlands with separate lanes for vehicle traffic and recreational users. Cherokee Park opened in 1891, has always been a major draw, the land comprising Cherokee Park was originally part of a 4, 000-acre military land grant in 1773 to James Southall and Richard Charlton. A 43-acre portion of the passed to Judge Joshua Fry Bullitt. Cochran established an estate there called Fern Cliff, which operated as a museum for a while but has since been demolished, as the land was located around Beargrass Creek, it was hilly and ill-suited to farming. Prior to its conversion as a park, the land was used primarily for animal grazing, by 1893 the land was carved into six estates, including Cochrans. The other estates belonged to the Bonnycastle 63 acres, Barret 20 acres, Morton & Griswold 106 acres, Alexander 25 acres families and those and two small lots under 1-acre were bought by 1891. Additional land from the Longest, Barringer and Belknap families would be added to expand the park to its modern size, in 1887, a city park system was proposed with three large suburban parks, east, west and south. The initial name of the park was to be Beargrass Park, but in 1891, as was fashionable in the late 19th century. The twin tunnels remain, running for about 425 feet in length under the hill, various groups, including one called Save Our Parks, formed as early as the 1940s to oppose running highways through the parks, and were largely responsible for forcing a tunnel as a compromise. The tunnels, which opened in 1970, are one of three sites in Kentucky deemed exceptionally significant by the Federal Highway Administration and this designation, in turn, means it will be very difficult for the stretch of interstate running through the park ever to be widened. Much of the park was damaged in the April 3,1974 tornado Super Outbreak. The tornado was an F4 on the Fujita scale, a city forester surveying the aftermath said, I dont believe that anyone alive today will see Cherokee Park as it was before the storm. However, to qualify for these funds, the park had to be restored to its design as faithfully as possible. The original Olmsted plans were consulted for the rebirth, with 2,500 trees and 4,600 shrubs planted in the restoration effort. Vandalism and petty crime has long plagued Cherokee Park, vandalism was reported as early as 1936. According to a commissioner, after the vandals saw the stories in print, they would always deposit the stolen pieces